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If you’re up for it, try to convert me into a fan. Why should I care about sumo? <Insert joke about fat guys in diapers> (FWIW I’m genuinely asking, I know nothing about it beyond pop culture depictions, and that it has a long history, but I’ll bet there are good reasons why you love it.)

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Wake up babe, new Mandela effect just dropped.

🏆 Here is an award for the best comment in the thread.

This may be the largest gap between the quality of an actors performance vs the movie it’s in.

Truly an abysmal movie, but Rahul Julia is so much fun to watch in it.

This is really interesting, thanks for the details. I fiddle around with 6510 assembly sometimes, and didn’t realize that the 6507 and other chips that the 2600 uses required those tricks for the player objects. The things that developers manage to make the 2600 do with such limited hardware blows my mind.

I have a couple different 2600 versions, a Jr, a colecovision Atari adapter and maybe a couple other variants in the closet that I’ll try to dig out this weekend and see how it handles this game! Unfortunately I don’t have a 7800, despite that being the console I had as a kid. I should add that to the wish list.

I agree, this is a fun little game. There definitely were plenty of terrible 2600 games that were part of problem at the time (I’m looking at you Frogs and Flies) but some of the “shovelware” is fun.

And, there actually is a version of Kool-Aid man for the Intellivision! It’s a completely different game though and not as much fun IMO.

Interesting! I’ve never heard of that before, and I love this sort of thing. Do you have any more info about it, or maybe an Atariage thread with more details?

I did a quick search and found a couple references to a problem with it on the 2600 Jr when the difficulty switch is set to A. Is that it?

Aww, nuts.

Is it a nut splitter, to help remove a nut that has seized to the bolt threads?

The roof? The ROOF!? The roof is on FIRE!?!

Bedpan was the first thing I thought of too, even before I saw your comment. I’m not a nurse, but I’ve had to deal with them with loved ones, and that tends to burn something into your brain. 😬

This is the meanest thing anyone has ever done to me on the internet, and I was on terminal emulator Usenet. <… Cause that’s where the party’s at and…> Here’s some Lemmy gold plated latinum 🪙

Yes! And I updated the BASIC code to add cheats. I thought I was quite the leet haxor. 😆 Edit: I accidentally a letter.

You better Belize it!

Thank you! I’m going to look into it. Also, for what it’s worth, I didn’t realize I was responding to a month old post until after the fact. So thank you for responding even though I probably seemed like some bot trying to build history. I assure you I am not, and I am writing this on my real phone using my human fingers, while breathing oxygen, since I am a biological creature, fellow human. Beep boop. 🤖

What game was it? That sounds like it could be interesting.

Are you me? LukHash is my go to. I can’t imagine how many times I’ve listened to Virtual Burnout and Better Than Reality in the last year.

This was beautiful, thank you for sharing it. I did not have “Feeling less alone because an internet stranger shared a Henry Rollins quote on Lemmy” on my agenda this evening, but here we are.

I use “Focus Plant: Pomodoro timer” on Android, but there is an iPhone version too. It’s free, with ads, but there is a subscription that removes them. I can only speak to how it works on Android, but in addition to blocking other apps (or at least adding a barrier to get to them) it gamifies things by letting you earn “raindrops” for focusing. Those are used to water little plant monsters, which there are a ton of. You can set a specific timer, regular or pomodoro, or just a count up, and it will show you a little icon for other people who are also currently focusing, which is kind of nice. It’s a bit silly, but the added layers of game and very light social aspect add a little that help me personally. It’s very usable with ads if you want to try it without committing money. I personally subscribe because it makes some of the game bits (sort of loot crates) more fun, but that’s definitely optional. (Good grief this sounds like I’m astroturfing for the company. I’m not, I just tried a bunch of other apps too, and this one has a combination of features that helped my dumpster fire of a brain.)

Ditto! I’ve been playing with 8-bit assembly programming and it’s fascinating how this mechanic was implemented in just a couple bytes of level data.